From 7e056835fabf76cc5f7202a68c4c623b59d3a1fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 21:25:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man page: mention -- to end option-scanning

---
 NEWS       | 1 +
 ssocr.1.in | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 96845d3..d45ff10 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Upcoming Version ?.??.? (???-??-??):
 ------------------------------------
  * The man page uses the year of the last ssocr update as its date instead
    of the build day of the man page, to help reproducible builds
+ * Documentation improvements
 
 Version 2.23.0 (2023-05-01):
 ----------------------------
diff --git a/ssocr.1.in b/ssocr.1.in
index 94534d3..58c069c 100644
--- a/ssocr.1.in
+++ b/ssocr.1.in
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ behavior.
 can be used to manipulate the input
 .I IMAGE
 before starting the recognition algorithm.
+Two hyphens
+.RB ( \-\- )
+can be used as a special argument to end option-scanning, e.g.,
+in order to use a negative number as argument to a command.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .SS \-h, \-\-help
 Write a help message to standard output.